Surya

i can’t fold, I’ve got aces in my deck

[Xiangyi Li @xdotli]

sharing my personal library on evals 1/n

i put together the highest quality blogs, podcasts, papers, and projects on evals. additions are welcome!

[Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi]

Nothing makes you more dangerous than figuring out exactly what you want.

[Surya @v_surya_kumar]

@AlxTurovski @swyx Why can you be so sure?

[Surya @v_surya_kumar]

@arpit_bhayani I am never confident in the changes unless I can see the code.

[Surya @v_surya_kumar]

@lvwerra @_lewtun What framework is being used for orch?

[DAN KOE @thedankoe]

If you don't have a goal so meaningful it makes other people's opinions irrelevant, you will lose control of your life. You will adopt the goals assigned to you by your parents, peers, or society.

[Casey Jacobson @401Casey]

If you’re ambitious I’d highly recommend working in an organization or a team where people have your similar sense of urgency or you will slowly go insane

[Surya @v_surya_kumar]

@VazeKshitij This is bad

[Surya @v_surya_kumar]

@gym_onchain @grok is this true?

[Naval @naval]

Just as you travel so that you can miss your home, you socialize so that you can miss your self.

[Michael Strong @flowidealism]

If your child becomes a reader, about 80% of the education job is already done. That's my honest assessment after working in education for over thirty years. Everything else is secondary. Most parents think science education is important. Yes it is. But if you can't read the biology textbook, you're not going to learn biology.

Reading is the meta-skill that enables all other skills. History requires reading. Science requires reading. Even math increasingly requires reading as it becomes more sophisticated. The child who reads voraciously will figure out everything else. The child who doesn't will struggle with everything.

[Surya @v_surya_kumar]

AI anxiety comes from not understanding it. ~Naval

[Arpit Bhayani @arpit_bhayani]

Google just released TimesFM (a Time Series Foundation Model) - a 200M-parameter model that can forecast time-series data it has never seen before, with no additional fine-tuning required.

Time-series forecasting is required everywhere - retail, finance, healthcare, etc. And for the longest time, this was the domain of traditional statistical methods. Then deep learning models came along and did better, but they involved long training and validation cycles before you could even test them on new data.

TimesFM changes this. All we need to do is point it at a new dataset, and it gives you a solid forecast immediately - zero-shot.

The architecture is decoder-only, the same idea as GPT. Instead of words, it works with "patches" - groups of contiguous time-points treated as tokens. The model predicts the next patch from all the ones before it.

The model was pre-trained on 100 billion real-world time-points, mostly from Google Trends and Wikipedia Pageviews - which naturally capture a huge variety of patterns across domains.

On benchmarks, zero-shot TimesFM matches PatchTST and DeepAR that were explicitly trained on those datasets, and even beats GPT-3.5 on forecasting tasks despite being far smaller.

The model is open on HuggingFace and GitHub if you want to try it.

[Sam Altman @sama]

The most impressive people I know spent their time with their head down getting shit done for a long, long time.

[Surya @v_surya_kumar]

@thetripathi58 @grok summarize this

[sachin. @sachinyadav699]

- be Peter Steinberger
- sell your company for $100M+
- spend three years in existential crisis
- become jacked
- come back from retirement
- vibe-code 43 failed projects
- project 44 is ClawdBot
- goes viral
- Anthropic sends you trademark law suits
- rename to MoltBot
- crypto scammers hijack your accounts in seconds
- secret rebrand to OpenClaw
- hit 180K GitHub stars
- get acquired by OpenAI

[Naval @naval]

Don’t read books, read authors.

Don’t read to read, read to understand.

Don’t write to persuade, write to refine.

Don’t speak to others, speak to hear yourself.

[Surya @v_surya_kumar]

@RayDalio @grok summarize this article

[Prasenjit @prasenx]

Google launched a brand new AI tool.

It's called CodeWiki, and it might be the biggest upgrade GitHub has had in years.

And all you do is paste your GitHub repo in, and it turns your entire project into an interactive guide.

It also generates diagrams, explanations, walkthroughs, everything you could ever want, and even a chatbot that knows the code better than anyone else.

So you never have to dig through a giant repo again wondering what does this do

[Naval @naval]

There is unlimited demand for intelligence.